September - Popular Feast Days
This entry was posted on September 1, 2015
.SEPTEMBER 2015: MONTH OF OUR LADY OF SORROWS
September, the month of Our Lady of Sorrows, remembers the suffering of Mary, Jesus' Mother. There are seven sorrows, seven afflictions that pierced her heart. Catholics commonly reflect upon each and they say daily one Our Father and seven Hail Mary's for each.
- The Prophecy of Simeon. (Luke 2:34–35)
- The Flight into Egypt. (Matthew 2:13)
- The loss of the child Jesus in the Temple. (Luke 2:43–45)
- Mary meets Jesus on the way to Calvary.
- Jesus dies on the cross. (John 19:25)
- The piercing of the side of Jesus, and Mary's receiving the body of Jesus in her arms. (Matthew 27:57–59)
- The body of Jesus is placed in the tomb. (John 19:40–42)
Dates in BOLD are Holy Days of Obligation for September:
Sept. 1: St. Giles, Abbot
Sept. 2: St. Justus of Lyons
Sept. 3: Pope St. Gregory the Great
Sept. 4: St. Magnus
Sept. 5: St. Romulus
Sept. 6: Twenty - Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, St. Petronius
Sept. 7: St. Cloud
Sept. 8: St. Adela
Sept. 9: St. Omer
Sept. 10: St. Achillieus
Sept. 11: St. Daniel
Sept. 12: St. Curomotus
Sept. 13: Twenty - Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, St. John Chrysostom
Sept. 14: St. Cormac
Sept. 15: St. Nicomedes
Sept. 16: St. Robert Bellarmine
Sept. 17: St. Hildegard of Bingen
Sept. 18: St. Joseph of Cupertino
Sept. 19: St. Januarius
Sept. 20: Twenty - Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Martyrs of Korea
Sept. 21: St. Matthew
Sept. 22: St. Maurice
Sept. 23: St. Padre Pio
Sept. 24: St. Ysarn
Sept. 25: St. Cleophas
Sept. 26: St. Cosmos and Damian
Sept. 27: Twenty - Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, St. Vincent de Paul
Sept. 28: St. Wencesalus
Sept. 29: St. Raphael
Sept. 30: St. Jerome